General Discussion

The "nothing comes to mind" quote was like quicksand.

Re Walz the rumor was that internals had Harris losing the GE so those angling for 2028 (Newsom, Shapiro) declined the VP spot for feared it would burn their shot at POTUS.

On trans, the GOP got away with framing the whole thing in an 80/20 way. IOW most Americans are either neutral or supportive of people identifying as they want, dressing, living, partnering, etc but the GOP hammered only on the two or three circumstances where Americans are not supportive: trans women in women's sports, trans women in women's prisons and whatever hysteria was whipped up around using the bathroom of your choice. There is/was no 30-second refutation of those attacks. To my thinking the Harris campaign was right to reiterate her general support of LGBTQ rights but the way to really fight back was to hammer some 80/20 issues and framing that cut the other way.